In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday — ON a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a NASA campus for a nine-day, $15,000 course at Singularity University, saw it happen.

Steven Pinker and the Internet — As someone who has enjoyed and learned a lot from Steven Pinker's books about language and cognition, I was disappointed to see the Harvard psychologist write, in Friday's New York Times, a cursory op-ed column about people's very real concerns …

Reeder for iPad - First Look — Reeder for iPad hit the App Store yesterday. And, it is already following the steps of its predecessor, Reeder for iPhone. If you're not familiar with Reeder, it's an RSS reader that syncs with your Google Reader account. — We've seen several RSS reader apps hitting the iPad App Store.

“for the lolz”: 4chan is hacking the attention economy — (Newbie note: If you have never heard of 4chan, start with the Wikipedia entry and not the website itself. The site tends to offend many adults' sensibilities. As one of my friends put it, loving LOLcats or rickrolling as outputs …

‘Shady’ porn site practices put visitors at risk — Visitors to porn sites are at serious risk of being exploited by cyber criminals, a study has suggested. — It found that many sites harboured malware or used “shady” practices to squeeze money out of their visitors.

The iPhone, Net Neutrality and the FCC — Regulatory uncertainty is spoiling the rollout of Steve Jobs's latest inspirations.There's a better way to spur broadband competition. — AT&T's Picturephone, shown at the 1964 World's Fair, was a huge flop. Apple's new iPhone 4, announced this week …

How We Measure Success — Interesting comment discussion between me and iamronen this morning. It started with me making the assertion that most founders start companies with the goal of building a “financially successful business.” — iamronen then pointed me to a Jeff Atwood post from earlier this month where Jeff says:

Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies? — Last week, I met up with Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's CEO. He gave a very fluent presentation to a group of journalists that ran through Red Hat's business model, and explained why - unsurprisingly - he was optimistic about his company's future growth.